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A memorial service bidding farewell to those killed during the protests in Kyiv. People take to the streets to pay their respects to the heroes of the "Heavenly Hundred". People's conversations with a priest. The report ends with journalists being asked to stop filming and their cameras being blocked out of sight.

Filming of transgender people while in a car on the way to a "Euroset" store.

Footage of the Euromaidan events. Clashes with security forces near the Dynamo football stadium. Police and special forces use sound, stun, and gas grenades. A man in a camouflage jacket and without protective equipment, a vivid character with colourful language, communicates with other protesters.

Viktor Yanukovych's speech in the Ukrainian parliament. Footage from inside the Verkhovna Rada. Conversations between journalists.

Footage of the Euromaidan events. Clashes between protesters and security forces. Police use grenades and improvised means; the use of fireworks by protesters. Burning barricades and the singing of protesters.

Anti-fascist march in St. Petersburg. Participants hold signs reading "Public Action. Protect the City from Fascism" and "Anarchism. Anti-Fascism. Autonomous Action."

At the first Pussy Riot trial, Yekaterina Samutsevich — like the other defendants — was represented by a well-known team of lawyers: Mark Feygin, Nikolai Polozov, and Violetta Volkova. Their defense strategy was built on the argument of political persecution, while rejecting the very premise that the women had committed “hooliganism”. However, during preparations for the appeal, Samutsevich unexpectedly dismissed the entire legal team, stating that they had failed to take into account the specific circumstances of her involvement in the action: she was removed from the cathedral by security before the main part of the performance began. Feygin himself later explained that “hooliganism” is considered a crime from the moment “she [Samutsevich] entered the cathedral,” and he claimed that Samutsevich had struck a police officer with a guitar and “resisted arrest,” being the only member of the group to do so. Samutsevich hired a new lawyer, Irina Khrunova, who built the appeal around this technical detail and convinced the court that her role was legally distinguishable from that of the other participants. In October 2012, the appeals court replaced Samutsevich’s prison sentence with a suspended one and released her directly from the courtroom, while Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alyokhina remained in penal colonies. Feygin argued that there were no legal grounds for her release (she had no children and no job) and suggested that Samutsevich had likely been “worked on” by a prison informant and agreed to admit guilt — something the other two refused to do. Afterward, rumors spread in the media and within the opposition community that Samutsevich had “cut a deal” with the authorities and “betrayed” the other members in order to gain her freedom. She denies this, insisting that her release was the result of a different legal strategy alone, and describing what happened as “the system’s sly maneuvering.”

The presentation of the Russian Olympic team uniform at Moscow's GUM department store.

Fans celebrate the birthday of singer and poet Vladimir Vysotsky — they drink cognac, sing his songs, argue with random passers-by, and clash with police officers who attempt to disperse them with the order: “No gatherings of more than three.”

Filmmakers at the Golden Eagle Awards ceremony — talking about themselves and Shahnazarov's "White Tiger".

In December 2013, Mikhail Khodorkovsky — former head of the Yukos oil company and one of the most prominent political prisoners in modern Russia — gave his first press conference in Berlin after nearly ten years in prison. His arrest and the Yukos affair have become a symbol of the persecution of political opposition in Putin's Russia.

A conversation with Natalia, the mother of Pussy Riot member Maria Alyokhina, about feminism.